at least you get twelve. There was a time I was limited to eight alpha numeric no special characters.

After a couple of days of using the Ubuntu Phone on WiFi only it works pretty well. The only hangup seems to be that it doesn't switch WiFi networks automatically so I have to remember to re-connect when leaving or returning home. Today, I think I'll dust off my Nexus 5 Sailfish and see how it performs under the same scenario.

My wife pointed out I still sound just as absurd at times.

I wonder if I sounded as absurd to my mom at 14 as my teen sounds to me right now.

Lol brilliant!

I hear you on that. I did prefer the BlaclBerry keyboard when I started carrying one for work. Still find them good but virtual keyboards are equally as good these days. But there is still a learning curve that I'm not sure mother-in-law wants to deal with.

I never got proficient with T9. I went qwerty as soon as I could.

The N95 only had a T9 pad rather than a full qwerty. Unless you meant the N950 which are harder to find

Or perhaps an old Nokia?

Mother-in-law is going to need a new phone soon. She's pretty stuck on using physical keyboards though which are getting to be a rare thing these days. I'm wondering if I should recomend a Blackberry or attempt to track down an older android slider.